Between the borders of living and the right to decide

The exercise of writing a study is political, meticulous and poetic. The whole journey only made sense because of the support and acceptance of the residents of Vila da Paz to the subject of this research, through rich conversations about resistance, violation of basic rights to survival, in short about breaking down borders that sometimes seem impossible! I am extremely grateful to them, to the collectives, street vendors, children, young people and social movements who walked with me through the alleys of Vila da Paz, who made me rethink the city, create photographs and understand the right to housing through the poetic dimension of resistance! I dedicate this ethnography to all the people who have already been evicted, those who fight every day to occupy city spaces in a fairer way, who problematize and act on social injustices, for the Right to the City - especially the families living on the ring road, in Vila da Paz.